Word: partnering
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Pioneering Postmodernist Robert Venturi is still given to architectural wisecracks -- an ironic use of old-fashioned forms, a cartoony application of classical ornament -- but for this most important job of his career, he (and partner Denise Scott Brown) behaved just enough. The new wing can speak the decorous language of the old museum: the facade is the same limestone block; the galleries, naturally lit John Soane-ish spaces. But the design is also quietly irreverent: pilasters, above, pile up on one another like so much extruded Play-Doh, and the Tuscan columns inside are impossibly faux...
Pioneering Postmodernist Robert Venturi is still given to architectural wisecracks -- an ironic use of old-fashioned forms, a cartoony application of , classical ornament -- but for this most important job of his career, he (and partner Denise Scott Brown) behaved just enough. The new wing can speak the decorous language of the old museum: the facade is the same limestone block; the galleries, naturally lit John Soane-ish spaces. But the design is also quietly irreverent: pilasters, above, pile up on one another like so much extruded Play-Doh, and the Tuscan columns inside are impossibly faux...
...Morgenthau's unprecedented worldwide probe had been running rings around the foot-dragging Justice investigation. Plenty remains to be uncovered. A grand jury in Manhattan is looking into the roles played in B.C.C.I.'s schemes by First American's ex- chairman, former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, and his law partner, Robert Altman...
...wimpy," complains Andrew Grove, president of the semiconductor giant Intel. The Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank, proposes that Washington create a new federal science-and-technology agency that would coordinate the government's widely scattered $76 billion annual investment in R. and D. and make industry a partner at every level. "What we have now," says Hudson fellow Robert Costello, a former Pentagon official, "is a flea going up against an elephant, but the flea is growing...
...make telephone calls and give speeches on problems unrelated to transportation. He has gone to great lengths to woo members of Congress, in one instance personally delivering a birthday cake to Representative Glenn Anderson, then 76 and chairman of the Public Works Committee. Skinner became a regular golfing partner of Dan Quayle's, and was treated by Quayle to a $27,000 trip at taxpayer expense to the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia aboard Air Force Two earlier this year. Skinner's wife Honey, a Washington lawyer, befriended Bush's daughter Doro, leading a house-hunting trip...